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confederacy, and as such kept up their distinct tribal organization, they were 
regarded as being in a special manner the friends and allies of the Cay- 
ugas, The latter, a tribe always noted for their kindly temper, received the 
new comers within their territory, and gave them a site for their town, 
which of course brought with it the hunting and fishing privileges neces- 
sary for their existence. The principal Cayuga villages were clustered 
about the lake to which the nation has given its name, South of them lay 
the land assigned to the Tuteloes. Their chief settlement, according to a 
careful observer, was on the east side of Cayuga inlet, about three miles 
from the south end of Cayuga lake, and two miles south of Ithaca, ‘The 
town was on the high ground south of the school-house, nearly opposite 
Buttermilk Falls, on the farm of James Fleming. On the Guy Johnson’s 
map of 1771, it figures (by a slight misprint) as Todevigh-rono. It was 
called in the Journal of General Dearborn, Coreorgonel ; in the Journal of 
George Grant (1779), Dehoriss-kanadia; and on a map made about the 
same date Kayeghtalagealat.’’* 
The town was destroyed in 1779 by General Sullivan, in the expedition 
which avenged, so disastrously for the Six Nations, the ravages committed 
by them upon the settlements of their white neighbors. The result, as is 
well known, was the destruction of the ancient confederacy. Of the broken 
tribes, some fragments remained in their original seats, submitting to the 
conquerors. All the Mohawks, the greater part of the Cayugas, about half of 
the Onondagas, and many of the Oneidas, with a few of the Senecas and 
Tuscaroras, followed Brant to Canada, The British government furnished 
them with lands, mostly along the Grand River, in the territory which in 
ancient times had been conquered by the Iroquois from the people who 
were styled the Neutral Nation. ‘The Tuteloes accompanied their friends 
the Cayugas. A place was found for them in a locality which seemed at, 
the time attractive and desirable, but which proved most unfortunate for 
them. They built their town on a pleasant elevation, which stretches along 
the western bank of the Grand River, and still bears the name of Tutelo 
Heights. Under this name it now forms a suburb of the city of Brantford. 
Fifty years ago, when the present city was a mere hamlet, occupied by 
a few venturous Indian traders and pioneers, the Tutelo cabins were scat- 
tered over these heights, having in the midst their ‘‘long-house’’ in which 
their tribal councils were held, and their festivals celebrated. They are 
said to have numbered then about two hundred souls, They retained ap- 
parently the reckless habits and love of enjoyment which had distin- 
guished them in former times. Old people still remember the uproar of the 
dances which enlivened their council-house. Unhappily, the position of 
*Tam indebted for this and much other valuable information to my friend 
General John 8, Clark, of Auburn, N, Y., who has made the location and migra- 
tions of the Indian tribes the subject of a special study. Of the above names 
Dehoriss kanadia is apparently a corruption of the Mohawk words Teholerigh 
kanada, Tutelo town, The other words are probably, like most Indian names 
of places, descriptive designations, but are too much corrujted to be satisfac- 
torily deciphered, 
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